Robert Tolmach

Summary

Passionate, creative, innovative leader with broad experience in analyzing complex systems, envisioning and designing disruptions, creating ventures, building stakeholder support, building partnerships, and marshaling expertise and resources to effect change. Extensive experience in diverse industries and business environments. As an entrepreneur and social entrepreneur, I am interested in using modern business practices to create profitable businesses and to make a meaningful social impact. As an architect (principal at Arquitectonica, where I ran the Texas office) I analyzed complex systems and requirements to create innovative solutions, built a team, managed operations, and oversaw production and construction on a variety of building types. As a real estate developer (projects in TX, FL, SC and NY). I created novel ventures and built talented teams, including design, finance, construction, legal, and marketing to make things happen. As a real estate investment banker (James D. Wolfensohn, Inc.), I worked on financial aspects of large developments, including Queens West, an 8M square foot development in NYC, while also advising clients of the firm and a JV with the Fuji Bank. As an entrepreneur, I conceived and led the development of the NYC Expo aboard a reconstructed Staten Island Ferry in Tokyo and Hong Kong, and was also a Managing Director of Zebra Fund LLC, which managed a $45 million fund to invest in properties with environmental issues. I conceived and led two nonprofit websites. ClassWish.org is the only nonprofit that lets anybody donate to fund resources for any school or teacher, and ChangingThePresent.org, which the NY Times called "an amazon.com of the nonprofit world.” I graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, then received my undergraduate degree in Architecture and Fine Arts, and my graduate degree in Architecture, both from Rice University.